A comparison of proxies for seismic site conditions and amplification for the large urban area of Santiago de Chile

Situated in an active tectonic region, Santiago de Chile, the country´s capital with more than six million inhabitants, faces tremendous earthquake hazard. Macroseismic data for the 1985 Valparaiso and the 2010 Maule events show large variations in the distribution of damage to buildings within shor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pilz, Marco
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Universität Potsdam 2010
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Online Access:http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-52961
http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2011/5296/